Dutch teenager Max Verstappen launched an astonishing verbal attack on four-time champion Sebastian Vettel in the wake of their stormy battle in the closing laps of Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix won. Lewis Hamilton’s win was the 51st of his career and kept alive his title defence and reduced Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg’s lead to 19 points with two races remaining. Rosberg finished second. His triumph also...

Dominika Cibulkova pulled off a stunning upset over Angelique Kerberto win the WTA Finals today, beating the newly crowned world number one in a dramatic 6-3, 6-4 final in Singapore. Runner-up at the 2014 Australian Open, Slovakia’s Cibulkova turned the tables on Germany’s Kerber a week after losing to her in the round-robin stage to capture the biggest title of her career, sealing it with a fortuitous net cord after...

Mark Zuckerberg, the FaceBook network core shareholder, and Microsoft company mogul Bill Gates have expressed their intentions of going to New York to see games for the title of the world’s chess champion, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), told TASS on Wednesday. “Gates and Zuckerberg voiced their consent to visit one of the games,” Ilyumzhinov said in an interview with TASS....

Juan Mata‘s second-half strike earned Manchester United a 1-0 win over holders Manchester City on Wednesday as Jose Mourinho’s resurgent side reached the English Football League Cup quarter-finals. Humiliated 4-0 by Mourinho’s former club Chelsea at the weekend, United got back to winning ways and claimed a measure of revenge for their 2-1 loss to Pep Guardiola’s City in last month’s league derby. The...

Manchester United and Manchester City resume hostilities in the League Cup later on Wednesday with rival managers Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola starting to feel the heat. Mourinho is reeling from United’s 4-0 humiliation by his former club Chelsea, while City manager Guardiola has gone five games without victory for only the second time in his stellar coaching career. Both managers are expected to rotate their squads for the...